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You might remember the products. You might remember the hype. Then, you are tooling down highway 41 years later and all of a sudden you think to yourself – “Hey, whatever happened to…” Failed ideas. Maybe it was a great idea, but wasn’t made right, or design errors brought it down. Maybe it was just a bad product. Well, let’s take a stroll down memory lane and see if we cannot repeat these errors again. Oh yeah, why 16? Well because we could. The Computer Watch: Whether it was the Ruputer, the MSN Direct ‘Smart’ Watches, the Timex Data Link...

We see the value in Earth Day. We recognize the importance of World Peace Day.In deference to our wife we think even Mother’s Day is OK.But Twitter Day? Somehow Oprah coming online and saying “Hello Twitter World.” (or whatever) is not quite up there with the wizard of Menlo Park (Edison) calling one of his assistants for help!For the most part, we don’t really care that Oprah, Shaq, Parris, Kutcher and a lot of other folks are thinking about or talking about.Yet a million +/- folks have signed up and track their every 140 character utterance. Our son — who...

According to Bloomberg and several other sources, EBay is planning to spin off Skype with an IPO. Read the story here. Apparently, Skype has never quite fit in with EBay. Here’s an excerpt: “The only problem with Skype is it’s part of EBay,” said Jeff Lindsay, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. in New York. “It’s a marriage made in hell. They will make more money from spinning it out than they ever could by keeping it.”

“No one gets left behind! No one gets left behind! Outstanding soldier!” Frank (Steve Carell) – Little Miss Sunshine (20th Century Fox – 2006) There are slightly more than six billion people on the planet.Not everyone is connected as those folks in the Silicon Valley areas of the world.We have about 15 +/- percent of the adults who work on systems/devices, creating stuff, collaborating, sharing content/information and even blend the devices into their social networks and entertain. They buy newer/better/more devices every 3-6 months. Then we have another 15 +/- percent who use the basic mobile device applications – email,...

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In the last few months, you might have seen a lot of “Why you should be podcasting now” type titles on the web. It’s true – you should be podcasting your message. There are many ways to do it and you can make it as easy or hard as you want. But out of all, […]

I am very happy with YouTube. It’s a great service that not only hosts my videos, but pays me monthly for them! Further, if you really work the channels, you can easily get people to come back and consume more. I spend 5-10 hours a month simply communicating and it always pays off. I find […]

Thanks to all the loyal listeners of Day in Tech History. I will be taking a break from this show and focusing on other podcasts. After 2100 episodes run daily, 7 days a week without fail, I need some time to reinvigorate myself and the show. Thanks again. Jeffrey Powers

Changed the name of the EWE from “Every Wednesday with Evan” to “Every Week with Evan” Goal line technology, in/out calls in tennis, and touch sensors in olympic swimming. What will happen next in the vast world of sports with technology? I’d like to see some of this implemented immediately to speed of the pace […]